Bought smaller bins for toys

I had huge bins and it worked okay except they were constantly dumping them to play with the bins and stand on them and they weren't full anyways. So I got small ones for cars, barbies, shopkins and doll accessories (a few diapers and a bottle for now).

Just pulled out about half the little shopkins and half the cars. Hopefully I picked good ones and they won't notice, but we'll see. I'll hang onto them for a while and see if they miss any specifics. I picked out 20 cars plus 2 ambulances for now.

I like how my shelves look now with the smaller bins. Next hurdle to tackle... locally made monster stuffies that hubby was obsessed with. They take up a lot of space and the kids don't use them ever. Hopefully I can convince hubby to let a few of them go.

It's a work in progress. The lego (in the black and clear thing beside the white shelf) is getting packed away until they're better at cleaning up. The bins used to be as big as the ones stacked (empty) on the lego bin, which is basically as big as each of the cubbies.

Blue and red "suitcase" things are empty currently but they were DH's and they go with the lego.

Lots has come off here in the last couple weeks. The bottom right is the bin of stuffed monsters that I need to purge some of with DH's approval. Paper books in the bin in the middle 4 rows up.

Two more rows of 3 not fully seen in the pic and it's storage mostly. We don't have a lot of storage space, so these shelves are attached to the walls and the top cubbies are my storage for kid things.

Avengers bin on the floor on the left is empty currently. Not sure what to do with it.

Lots has come off here in the last couple weeks. The bottom right is the bin ...

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02/11/2017

Lots has come off here in the last couple weeks. The bottom right is the bin of stuffed monsters that I need to purge some of with DH's approval. Paper books in the bin in the middle 4 rows up.

Two more rows of 3 not fully seen in the pic and it's storage mostly. We don't have a lot of storage space, so these shelves are attached to the walls and the top cubbies are my storage for kid things.

Avengers bin on the floor on the left is empty currently. Not sure what to do with it.

It's a work in progress. The lego (in the black and clear thing beside th...

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02/11/2017

It's a work in progress. The lego (in the black and clear thing beside the white shelf) is getting packed away until they're better at cleaning up. The bins used to be as big as the ones stacked (empty) on the lego bin, which is basically as big as each of the cubbies.

Blue and red "suitcase" things are empty currently but they were DH's and they go with the lego.

We are new to the whole lego thing - how do you keep them organized by drawer? Is there any rhyme or reason?

For now, all of my sons duplos fit into one lego box. But I'm guess it's going to increase over time..

We are new to the whole lego thing - how do you keep them organized by drawer...

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02/11/2017

We are new to the whole lego thing - how do you keep them organized by drawer? Is there any rhyme or reason?

For now, all of my sons duplos fit into one lego box. But I'm guess it's going to increase over time..

Yeah I don't haha. I sorted it when I put them all out originally. Base plates in the top, smaller pieces (like people and other things) in the 2nd one and then just dumped between the other 3 drawers. But it's mixed a bunch now. My kids are small. 2&4 and we're having a 3rd in a few weeks, so I'm sticking it all away until we move at the very least (summer time), but probably until baby won't stick things it its mouth honestly.

We are new to the whole lego thing - how do you keep them organized by drawer...

Posted
02/11/2017

We are new to the whole lego thing - how do you keep them organized by drawer? Is there any rhyme or reason?

For now, all of my sons duplos fit into one lego box. But I'm guess it's going to increase over time..

Our current duplo stash gets played with all the time. It's not in sets anymore at all lol. It's in one of those bins that fits on the white shelf (like the empty ones on top of the lego storage drawers) and it's basically FULL.

Our current duplo stash gets played with all the time. It's not in sets a...

Posted
02/11/2017

Our current duplo stash gets played with all the time. It's not in sets anymore at all lol. It's in one of those bins that fits on the white shelf (like the empty ones on top of the lego storage drawers) and it's basically FULL.

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